Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

Sections

Social Justice in Higher Education

Work in this area tries to interrogate
the centrality of the idea of social justice and diversity to higher education
in India today. Apart from the crucial questions of equity and access of
socially and economically marginalized students to higher education, the
initiative also seeks to examine the quality of their access to higher
education institutions, attempts at reform and their manifestations in terms of
policy and implementation in the sector.

A key project in this area is a campus
diversity initiative in collaboration with the Pathways to Higher Education
programme of theFord Foundation,in nine undergraduate
colleges in three states.

Key objectives of this programme are to:

Improve
the quality of access to higher education at the undergraduate level.

Build
a viable model for social diversity on the campus thereby getting institutions to recognize its centrality to the sphere of higher education